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Friday, April 12, 2013

Moshe Wertman, Israeli politician, died he was 87.

Biography

Born in Tomaszów Lubelski in Poland, Wertman joined Hashomer Hatzair in 1936, and was also a member of the Dror youth movement and Poalei Zion. In 1939 he moved to Lviv, before moving again to Tajikistan the following year, where he lived until 1946, when he returned to Poland.
In 1947 he made aliyah to Mandate Palestine, where he joined the Haganah. In April 1948 he was injured during the battle for the Western Galilee. In the same year he joined Mapai, and served as secretary for the trade unions in Haifa
Workers Council between 1949 and 1955, when he became Director of the
branches department, a role he held until 1959. Between 1959 and 1969 he
served as a member of the workers council's secretariat. In 1964 he
became secretary of Mapai's Haifa district branch, and was on the
Alignment list (an alliance of Mapai and Ahdut HaAvoda) for the Knesset elections the following year. Although he failed to win a seat, he entered the Knesset on 17 January 1966 as a replacement for Moshe Carmel,[1] who had given up his seat after being appointed Minister of Transport. He was re-elected in 1969 and 1973, but lost his seat in the 1977 election.
During his time in the Knesset he served as chairman of the Alignment
faction and chaired the governing coalition's directorate.
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